memstick
January 28th, 2012, 11:11 PM
Hey,
I'm working on an NVIDIA cuda project and have to work in Ubuntu 10.10 for the time being. I've just attempted installing Ubuntu and NVIDIA's cuda development driver, a setup working fine on an XPS laptop I've been using until now. The problem is that I'm not at all able to enter a TTY terminal. The system boots fine after installation, but when I try to enter a tty, the mouse pointer disappears and apart from that the screen stays exactly the same. I am able to go back to the desktop environment successfully.
This represents a problem because you need to stop gdm and xserver in order to be able to build and install the proprietary nvidia driver. I have tried installing the driver from the package system (nvidia-current or something) and this actually solves the problem with the ttys, but then it creates errors later when I have attempted to install the development driver from tty.
My computer has two gtx 8600 cards in sli plus an integrated nvidia nforce 750 on the motherboard.
Is there anywhere I might be able to get some logs for the tty problem, or anything anyone can think of that might help?
I'm working on an NVIDIA cuda project and have to work in Ubuntu 10.10 for the time being. I've just attempted installing Ubuntu and NVIDIA's cuda development driver, a setup working fine on an XPS laptop I've been using until now. The problem is that I'm not at all able to enter a TTY terminal. The system boots fine after installation, but when I try to enter a tty, the mouse pointer disappears and apart from that the screen stays exactly the same. I am able to go back to the desktop environment successfully.
This represents a problem because you need to stop gdm and xserver in order to be able to build and install the proprietary nvidia driver. I have tried installing the driver from the package system (nvidia-current or something) and this actually solves the problem with the ttys, but then it creates errors later when I have attempted to install the development driver from tty.
My computer has two gtx 8600 cards in sli plus an integrated nvidia nforce 750 on the motherboard.
Is there anywhere I might be able to get some logs for the tty problem, or anything anyone can think of that might help?